… Today at Microsoft Build, we are introducing Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact developer PC engineered with NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip and built on the Windows developer platform, designed for local-first AI development. …
… The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is built on the Windows developer platform and powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip. …
Microsoft has two new Surface devices arriving later this year, both powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark chips. …
There is a lot of disdain for DGX Sparks here on the sub. And I get it. A lot of people say “It could have been great if it had been better memory bandwidth”, “SM-121 is a fake /second-class Blackwell chip” yadda, yadda.…
I'm a big fan of on-device AI inference for a million reasons, especially its potential to significantly reduce or even potentially eliminate the need for massive AI data center projects in the United States. But so far,…
… On the hardware front, we didn’t get any updates for existing Surface devices not counting yesterday’s Surface Laptop Ultra announcement , but we did get something new: the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is “a compact developer PC” built around Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of built-in me… …
… While the latter does remain the first choice for a lot of AI developers and the only choice for rival NVIDIA’s DGX Spark boxes , AMD believes there are enough AI developers and users running Windows as their daily driver to warrant supporting both at parity. …
… The new machine is powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, combining a Grace CPU and Blackwell-based RTX GPU into a unified platform aimed at accelerating modern AI workflows. …
… The primary audience for this device would be local AI developers, as AMD has placed its most powerful APU in a compact box to provide an alternative to NVIDIA's DGX Spark platform. This should be sufficient for good compute performance and local AI development. …
… As the name implies, this Surface is meant for developers, developers, developers, developers. Specifically "AI" developers. "It’s a purpose-built Windows AI developer box that puts up to 1 petaflop of AI compute directly on the desk," says Microsoft's promotional page. …